Yahoo profits rise in 3Q, will revenue follow?

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. has pumped up its profits by laying off workers and weeding out unpopular Internet services.

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Yahoo slump eases as 3Q profit more than triples

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. may finally be pulling out of a three-year slump that cast aside two CEOs and spurred a cost-cutting campaign that led to about 2,000 layoffs.

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Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'

SAN FRANCISCO — Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes.

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For the jobless, Labor Day is hardly a holiday

WASHINGTON — Every day it's a battle.

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Twitter all-star? Best Buy puts number at 250

CHICAGO — After buzz built online about a new marketing job, Best Buy Co. Inc. is reworking the help-wanted listing that sought Twitter experience and put a number on it — 250 followers.

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LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO

SAN FRANCISCO — After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking. The change in command announced Wednesday isn't a surprise, given that Hoffman brought in Weiner as LinkedIn's interim president to start the year. Weiner joined LinkedIn as Hoffman reclaimed his job as the Mountain View-based company's chief executive from Dan Nye, whom he hired to run LinkedIn in early 2007.

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